Curve and Elbow Handles

Straight lines are not always enough. When two connectors would overlap, or a line needs to route around a shape, you can bend an arrow by hand: drag the line itself, or drag the handle a curved or angled arrow shows once it is selected.

Bending by dragging the line

Press anywhere on an arrow's line and drag. The arrow bends where you grabbed it:

• A straight arrow becomes a smooth curve that passes through your pointer.
• A curved arrow reshapes its bow the same way. If it already has bend points, dragging the line adds a new one where you grabbed it.
• An angled arrow slides the segment you grabbed sideways, adding a short jog where needed so its ends stay put.

A click without dragging only selects the arrow, and a quick double-click always opens its label, however fast you click.

An arrow attached to nothing at either end shows a selection frame like a shape's when selected. Drag the frame's edge to move the whole arrow (dragging its line bends it), or a corner or side handle to scale it.

Choosing a bendable style

The handle appears once you give the arrow a curved or angled geometry. Open the arrow's right-click context menu and, under the Line category, set the Line style:

• Curved draws a gentle bezier that bows away from the straight chord between the endpoints.
• Angled draws an axis-aligned L-shaped elbow, with horizontal and vertical segments meeting at a bend.

Dragging the handle

Releasing the drag commits the new shape, and like other drag edits it collapses into a single undo step, so one tap of undo returns the line to where it was before you started.

Keeping connections intact

Reshaping an arrow does not break its endpoints. If an end is pinned to a shape, or attached along another arrow, it stays connected while you bend the line, and an attached endpoint keeps riding at the same point along its target. This means you can route a connector cleanly without losing the relationships it represents.